No. 10,448 in French
laissés
"Left" or "abandoned."
In a sentence
Ils ont laissés des cadeaux sous le sapin.
They left some gifts under the Christmas tree.
Laissés is used here as a past participle agreeing in number and gender with the direct object 'cadeaux'.
Les enfants laissés seuls sont inquiets.
The children left alone are worried.
Laissés is used as a past participle serving as an attribute for 'enfants', describing their state.
Nous nous sommes laissés emporter par l'ambiance.
We let ourselves be carried away by the atmosphere.
Laissés is the past participle used reflexively to describe the action performed by the subject on themselves.
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